[ShareTompkins] Ithaca planning local activities for Honoring Native treaties & fighting fracking

[Patricia Haines]

An Ithaca campus/community group is working on local plans. Everyone
welcome to join in. Next meeting 4 pm march 25th at LACS.

LEVEL GREEN: fostering just & sustainable community through
campus/community collaborations in hospitality, education &  the arts, in
the democratic spirit of the Danish Folk School (607) 339-9472
On Mar 18, 2013 10:04 AM, "Ari Evergreen" <ariloveevergreen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear friends, sorry for sending yet another post that's not specifically
> about bartering or free stuff. But this is important, and it's about
> sharing, in a broad way: We share the land on which we live, and we have a
> shared future that we're all affecting with our actions.
>
> Thanks for reading, peace,
> Ari
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Lindsay Speer <lspeer at mrss.com>
> Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:48 PM
> Subject: [noon] Press Release: Honoring Native treaties & fighting fracking
>
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> *INDIAN NATIONS & NEIGHBORS COMMEMORATE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF TWO ROW
> WAMPUM TREATY *
>
> *CANOE TRIP HIGHLIGHTS CAMPAIGN TO RAISE AWARENESS OF TREATY
> RESPONSIBILITIES, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS*
>
> Leaders of the Onondaga Nation, part of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
> Confederacy, and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) came to the Museum
> of the American Indian today to announce the beginning of a state-wide
> educational campaign, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Two Row
> Wampum treaty signed with the Dutch.  It was the first treaty signed
> between the Haudenosaunee and Europeans who were just beginning to settle
> in what they called the New World, and established diplomatic protocols
> that have lasted 400 years.  The campaign is highlighted by an epic canoe
> trip this summer.
>
> “The Two Row is the oldest and is the grandfather of all subsequent
> treaties,” said Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation’s Turtle
> Clan who has represented the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy in world
> councils at the United Nations and elsewhere.
>
> “The words ‘as long as the sun shines, as long as the waters flow
> downhill, and as long as the grass grows green’ can be found in many
> treaties after the 1613 treaty,” Lyons said. “It set a relationship of
> equity and peace. This campaign is to remind people of the importance of
> the agreements.”
>
> A two-week canoe trip from Albany to New York City, is scheduled to push
> off on July 28th to symbolize the separate but cooperative paths
> represented in the two rows of purple beads used  in the wampum belt that
> records the treaty.
>
> “Twenty-thirteen, the 400th anniversary of the Two Row Wampum agreement,
> is a good time to revisit together our past and future relationships both
> as peoples and nations,” said Tonya Gonella Frichner, an Onondaga who heads
> the American Indian Law Alliance.
>
> *--Information about the treaty’s commemoration, and the planned canoe
> trip, are available at honorthetworow.org website*
> *
> *
> Sidney Hill is the Tadodaho, or spiritual leader, of the six-nation
> Haudenosaunee and lauded the fact that non-Indians will join the Indians in
> the journey from Albany to New York.
>
>  “We have always been told that when we make decisions that we have to
> look to seven generations and see how those decisions will affect those
> people,” Hill said. “In the past few years, we have been connecting with
> the people, the grassroots people, the activists, the leadership, wherever
> we can, to do anything that will make the environment better than what it
> is now.”
>
>
> Jake Edwards, of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs, said “What we hope
> to achieve in this journey is to educate the people so that they do their
> part, individually, as peoples, to protect mother earth and all the waters
> that flow for future generations.”
>
>
> Andy Mager, a leader in Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) and
> Project Coordinator for the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, said “We see
> the 400th anniversary of the Two Row Wampum as an opportunity to educate
> about our treaty obligations, Indigenous rights, and environmental issues,
> particularly regarding fracking and climate change.”
>
>
> The Haudenosaunee continue to work with their neighbors in New York to
> protect the environment, part of the Indian nation’s commitment to look to
> future generations in their actions, as evidenced in their work to clean up
> Onondaga Lake and to warn about the threats posed by hydrofracking, the
> invasive and dangerous method of extracting the shale gas that sits beneath
> New York’s Southern Tier, including the watershed that sustains the
> Onondaga Nation.
>
>
> “Indian nations' agreements always were inclusive,” said Lyons. “They
> encompass not only the human elements of life but all life.  So protection
> of the commons was inherent in all these agreements.  The commons are what
> belong to one and all - the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land we
> live on.  And today, we see the necessity for those protections.”
>
> NOON Announcements is a communications vehicle to share information about
> the work of Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation. It is a low volume list,
> typically involving several messages per month. For further information
> about NOON's work, see www.peacecouncil.net/noon.
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